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<blockquote data-quote="Electrodynamic" data-source="post: 7718951" data-attributes="member: 548723">I can not and will not say that the OA woofers will handle more than their rated power. They are warrantied for how much power they are rated at. However, a lot of our customers are sending them around the same amount of power you mentioned without any problems at all.I don&#039;t understand what you&#039;re asking regarding three 12&#039;s, as three 12&#039;s may technically be a tad down on the meter (~1.5 dB down in a perfect world) compared to four 12&#039;s. However, as I&#039;ve stated multiple times in this thread going with a smaller number of drivers (three 12&#039;s) and using the same size enclosure that you would have with four 12&#039;s you will be able to utilize more overall performance from three drivers in an adequate sized enclosure than you would trying to shoe-horn four 12&#039;s into that same sized enclosure because the four 12&#039;s won&#039;t be able to play as low as the three 12&#039;s due to the smaller enclosure volume seen by each woofer.I wanted to do the exact same thing you are doing - I wanted to do four 12&#039;s ported. After I looked at how much room I had (8 ft^3 overall before woofer and port displacement) to use I decided to use three 12&#039;s. Now technically three 12&#039;s will be 1.5 dB louder than two 12&#039;s as three 12&#039;s vs two 12&#039;s is &quot;only&quot; a 50% increase in surface area. What I ended up with was a constant 148 dB from 26 Hz up to ~50 Hz at which point it went down a 145 at 70 Hz. It was a very broad bandwidth that ended up almost tearing the back of the car apart. If I kept it in there I was going to have to put the car on a lift and drill holes for all-thread rod up through the body/chassis to use nuts and washers to hold the box in place. The box was screwed to four parts of the floor already but it was still bouncing around back there when a track would play very low.And yes I am biased. I stand by my product because I believe in it and know what it can do. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Electrodynamic, post: 7718951, member: 548723"] I can not and will not say that the OA woofers will handle more than their rated power. They are warrantied for how much power they are rated at. However, a lot of our customers are sending them around the same amount of power you mentioned without any problems at all. I don't understand what you're asking regarding three 12's, as three 12's may technically be a tad down on the meter (~1.5 dB down in a perfect world) compared to four 12's. However, as I've stated multiple times in this thread going with a smaller number of drivers (three 12's) and using the same size enclosure that you would have with four 12's you will be able to utilize more overall performance from three drivers in an adequate sized enclosure than you would trying to shoe-horn four 12's into that same sized enclosure because the four 12's won't be able to play as low as the three 12's due to the smaller enclosure volume seen by each woofer. I wanted to do the exact same thing you are doing - I wanted to do four 12's ported. After I looked at how much room I had (8 ft^3 overall before woofer and port displacement) to use I decided to use three 12's. Now technically three 12's will be 1.5 dB louder than two 12's as three 12's vs two 12's is "only" a 50% increase in surface area. What I ended up with was a constant 148 dB from 26 Hz up to ~50 Hz at which point it went down a 145 at 70 Hz. It was a very broad bandwidth that ended up almost tearing the back of the car apart. If I kept it in there I was going to have to put the car on a lift and drill holes for all-thread rod up through the body/chassis to use nuts and washers to hold the box in place. The box was screwed to four parts of the floor already but it was still bouncing around back there when a track would play very low. And yes I am biased. I stand by my product because I believe in it and know what it can do. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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